Do you miss the 90's Sup Forums?

Do you miss the 90's Sup Forums?

apple was gay even back then?

No, I just miss being young and naïve.

Not really. Computers were big, slow, loud and internet was just in it's beginning phases. And also really slow (lol dial-up).

Forgot to mention, really fucking expensive, too. I don't think I'd want to give up having a zillion cheap, powerful (compared to old shit) computers and laptops in my house for use whenever I feel like it.

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sure they're fun to look back at the superior build quality since they were expensive as fuck
but in reality they are useless to practical use

Yeah but the whole internet culture was more mature, and a little bit more obscure tho.
About computers, true... but computers at the time were cooler and would last more.

>were cooler

You like beige boxes?

Cooler as in lower temperatures, not looks.

You'll be glad to know modern PCs are slowly creeping back towards cool and mostly silent .. as long as you don't mind a drop in performance.

Yes, but I spent the last half of the decade missing the first half, for reasons entirely unrelated to computers. I have fond memories involving computers between '96-'99, though.

Sometimes, I miss my first modern pc. an IBM Aptiva in 1997. AMD K6 200mhz, 32mb ram, 2.1 gb hdd, cd-rom, floppy drive, integrated ati rage 2mb graphics(upgraded it to ATI Xpert 98 8mb pci in 1998 and finally a 3dfx voodoo 3 2000 pci in 1999, also upgraded the ram to 64mb and it's hdd to 8gb). Came with 15inch crt and lexmark 2030 inkjet. Cost was what a decent used car was worth back in the day. Also in 1997 was the year I first got internet at a blazing fast 28.8 kbps and a playstation game console.

No, I'm fine with being able to still enjoy the '90s but at prices 400x cheaper and with network speeds 400x faster

>tfw I don't really care about big, loud, even slow in some cases
Shit felt like an actual machine, not a featureless toy.

I tried daily driving a Pentium II box for the fuck of it once, they suck shit at the internet and stuff like video playback but for other stuff they're pretty alright and not useless at all.

I do
Post beige boxes

I miss 90s computers, but I don't miss the 90s.

I miss the 00's ;_;

I miss when the internet was not so much about images and video. If you go on a traditional message board right now you will see people posting reaction gifs instead of typing out their feelings.

I liked it when things were a little slower and took a little more effort.

What is there to miss? My setup has changed little since the late 90s. It's almost identical to where it was in the 2000s. It was only this year that I finally switched over to an LCD monitor.

In 2005 I was running 1024x768 and looking at message boards and Sup Forums, and typing on an old dell keyboard.

In 2015 I was running 1024x768 and looking at message boards and Sup Forums, and typing on an old dell keyboard.

for me;
2000: 1280x1024
2005: 1280x1024
2010: 1280x1024
2015: 1920x1080 (58% more pixels!)

isn't technology amazing?

I used to have one of those.

Slow as fuck and nearly impossible to do anything useful with, even in the late 90s

fuck the 90s xD

remember when we had websites?

facebook killed all of that

I miss the performance increases we used to see, yes.

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>his CPU doesn't run at 60C under full load

clean the dust out of your heatsink. it helps a ton.

Ah man, the Aptivas. I still have mine and the speakers and microphone and cables and all.
Sadly it doesn't like to work right with the built in graphics with modern LCD monitors at most settings available.

In 2016
>I paid an approximate total of 25 (twenty-five) burgers for pic related with dual 512K cache Pentium Pros, 128 MB of RAM, three SCSI hard disks for a total of 8 GB of storage, and a 5-disc CD changer
>My internet/local network speeds are faster than even the OS can keep up with
>Thanks to the maturity and ease of navigation of the modern internet I have access to practically any piece of software I want for it
>Abandonware archives are clean as fuck
>Store all the "vintage" 640x480 porn I want on multi-terabyte network storage
>The cheapness of the hardware, software and ease of recovering from system fuckups allows me to tinker and explore with it much more than I ever would have had the balls to do with it as a main system in 1996

In 1996
>The same system with a single 256K cache CPU, 32 MB of RAM, a single 1 GB SCSI hard disk, and a shitty phoned-in 4x single-disk optical drive cost 6,211 (six thousand, two hundred and eleven) burgers, and I'm more than likely stuck on a hand-me-down AT clone or some bargain bin Pentium-75 shitbox with 16 MB of RAM and an 800ish MB IDE disk that can barely run Microshit from an ass Windows
>Any internet service of meaningful speed is basically out of the question, if it's even offered, hello glacial 33.6k dial-up
>If I want software for free, I either had to suck it up and pay out the ass, mail out for a shareware/shovelware CD, learn to develop my own software, or crawl through some potentially unsanitary BBS and wait for fucking years
>Get fucked by high storage costs and my shit IDE bus that won't allow me more than two drives on the same chain, have to be more discerning and settle for 320x240 porn instead
>Too afraid to get too deep into hardware or even software tinkering, god knows if your boot disk and OEM operating system media still works

I think I'm okay. Too bad I missed out on all the minicomputer/workstation iron that decade sent to the landfill, though.

Did anyone of you had a Fido point or node?

Absolutely. Less idiots on the internet, LAN partying, bigger leaps in technology, less consumer technology wars.

>bigger leaps in technology
This is exciting as fuck and cool for sure, but I don't know if that was all too good when as a consumer your shiny new $1,200 486SX-25 will get the absolute piss beaten out of it by a DX/2-50 next year for the same price.